The Collaborative International Dictionary
also its milky juice
Balata \Bal"a*ta\, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.]
A West Indian sapotaceous tree ( Bumelia retusa).
The bully tree ( Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice ( ); also, its milky juice (), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.